Football Club Rayka Babol (, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Raika Babol) is an Iranian football club based in Babol, Mazandaran.
History In 2013, Mazani chain store company from Babol, Khooneh Be Khooneh bought Bahman's certificate to take part in 3rd Division Football League. Previously, Khooneh Be Khooneh had successful experiences with their team in wrestling. With Farshad Pious as their manager they got their first promotion in their first season.
After appointing Hamid Derakhshan midway through the season as manager in their first season at second tier of Iranian football, the team went on a disastrous run and missed out on promotion. However at the end of the season, Alireza Marzban the coach of Azadegan League champions Paykan announced he had taken over as manager. In 2016–17 season following high hopes with Marzban as the coach, after suffering from some weak results, specially their 3–0 defeat against their rival Baadraan, club and manager decided to take separate ways from about middle of the season. Then Levon Stepanyan and Alireza Emamifar took over and co-managed the team against Pars Jonoubi Jam and Sepidrood as caretakers.رسمی؛ قطع همکاری خونه به خونه با علیرضا مرزبان/ دو دستیار سرمربی موقت شدند After a little while Nader Dastneshan managed the team for the rest of the season and failed to promote to upper division.
In 2017–18, they chose former national team captain and assistant manager Javad Nekounam as their manager. Being under Carlos Queiroz for a few months, Nekounam started his first season as manager with brilliant vision and strong ideas. He got great results with the team in the league and led them to the Hazfi Cup semi-final.نکونام سرمربی خونه به خونه شدنکونام! چقدر شبیه کی‌روش هستی؟ Just after losing the first game of his season with Khooneh Be Khooneh, he resigned from his position and soon after losing his second game of the season he left the club. He later signed for the other Mazani club Nassaji and later led them into the Persian Gulf Pro League after 24 years out of it.جواد نکونام از خونه به خونه جدا شدنساجی پس از 26 سال لیگ برتری شد Later the club replaced Nekounam with Croatian coach Dragan Skočić. Although Skočić got great results with the team and even went on an unbeaten streak for 11 games and also led the team to the Hazfi Cup final, he failed to promote the team in the last week because of goal difference and with Nassaji in the table after.اسکوچیچ، بازنده بزرگ روز آخر لیگ یکاسکوچیچ سرمربی خونه به خونه شد
Honours Domestic Hazfi Cup Runners-up (1): 2017–18
Season-by-season
The table below shows the achievements of the club in various competitions.
Season League PositionHazfi Cup Notes2013–14 3rd Division 2nd Fourth RoundPromote2014–152nd Division 4thFourth Round2015–16Azadegan League6thDidn't enter2016–17Azadegan League6thThird Round 2017–18Azadegan League3rdRunners-up2018–19Azadegan League12thThird Round 2019–20Azadegan League13thDidn't enter2020–21Azadegan League
Notes R buy the right to play in Azadegan League from Bahman Shiraz.
Current managerial staff PositionStaffHead coach Pirouz GhorbaniAssistant coach Ali AshourizadAssistant coach Mehran BarzegarFitness coach Goalkeeper coach Hamid SajjadiTeam manager Ebrahim Mahmoudi
Managerial history As of 2 May 2018. SeasonsManagerNationality2012–2013Mohammad Ghorbanian2013–2014Farshad Pious2014Morteza Kermani Moghaddam * 2014–2015Farhad Kazemi2015–2016Akbar Misaghian2016Hamid Derakhshan2016Hossein Rahmani *2016–2017Alireza Marzban2017Levon Stepanyan * Alireza Emamifar * 2017Nader Dastneshan SeasonsManagerNationality2017Hossein Rahmani *2017–2018Javad Nekounam2018Dragan Skočić2018Ali Nazarmohammadi2018–2019Akbar Misaghian2019Mehran Najafi2019Hossein Mesgar Saravi2019Hadi Shakouri2019Ali Nazarmohammadi2019–2020Rahman Rezaei2020Ali Nazarmohammadi2020–2021Nader Dastneshan2021–Pirouz Ghorbani
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